Questions tagged [imap]
IMAP stands for Internet Message Access Protocol and is the other e-mail protocol along with POP.
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Unable to set up Outlook with local IMAP (dovecot) host on Mac [migrated]
I am trying to configure Outlook 365 (version 16.22.1) on Mac High Sierra (10.13.6). The Mac is a domain member on a Windows Active Directory domain. Our office has a self-hosted IMAP mail server ...
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Dovecot fails to authenticate for some users
I've the typical Dovecot + Postfix setup, with Apache and Roundcube (in a VPS). Yesterday I set up everything, and it went smooth. Right, but today I woke up with the surprise that some users simply ...
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Forcing SYN packet check results in unexpected results
As per the article on nixCraft
This iptables rule(s):
iptables -A INPUT -p tcp ! --syn -m state --state NEW -j DROP
-A INPUT -j sanity
-A sanity -p tcp -m tcp ! --tcp-flags FIN,SYN,RST,ACK SYN -m ...
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Outlook as a lightweight IMAP client
Is it possible to configure Outlook (Version 1812, part of Office 365) as an IMAP client without downloading everything in Drafts, Sent, Spam, Trash?
Starting from a clean profile, I add a user, and ...
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Best way to restrict/manage PHP apps to use my postfix?
I want to allow PHP apps to send mail but under very restricted conditions.
And I don't want to allow sendmail-like command for PHP apps (I'm using chrooted PHP and it's too much headache), thus I ...
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Dovecot IMAP authenticating proxy using Kerberos/GSSAPI
I'm trying to set up Dovecot as authenticating reverse proxy, in front of an already running IMAP server to accomplish the following:
Have Dovecot authenticate users using Kerberos/GSSAPI (to allow ...
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Virtual unified inbox in dovecot
I have a wildcard alias for my domain @foo.bar root@foo.bar and a sieve filter which moves mails to the folder INBOX.${alias}.
require ["variables", "fileinto", "regex"];
if address :matches "to" ...
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No package php-imap available on CentOS 6
I'm running a dedicated server with CentOS 6 64bit, here is the output when trying to install IMAP:
[root@localhost ~]# yum install php-imap
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Loading mirror speeds from ...
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IMAP connections from Microsoft IP addresses when using Outlook
I run a Linux based mail server and use Dovecot to provide IMAP over TLS access. This server has been up and running for a bit more than 8 years now and it serves my email address along with those of ...
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What is right way to migrate mails from Gmail to Dovecot with doveadm-backup?
Dovecot doc is far from being perfect, thus I'm little bit confused what is right way to get mails from Gmail to local Dovecot.
See: https://wiki.dovecot.org/Migration/Gmail
After some struggle I ...
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SPF Outlook Web App (OWA) undeliverable email
PROBLEM:
Outlook.com web app (OWA), synchronized with my local server via IMAP and SMTP(STARTTLS), returns "Undeliverable message" for all messages sent.
PROPOSAL: (rejected)
This returning message ...
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how to do basic IMAP setup / troubleshooting in Exchange 2013
So I've had an Exchange Server (v2013 with cu21) running on a Windows Server 2012 R2 box for several years now, without many problems.
We almost exclusively use Outlook-Exchange integration and ...
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Recovering deleted plain text (emails) files from raw disk image
I'm hosting my own linux mail server for my family. Yesterday my father lost all the mails in his Inbox folder. I'm still not sure whether it's due to a terrible user error or compromised password, ...
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Postfix DDoS mitigation: how to whitelist IPs for IMAP access to a single mailbox
Does (Zimbra using) Postfix have an option to whitelist IPs or domains for IMAP logins for a specific mailbox only?
This is what we would like to achieve:
all IPs can open an IMAP connection on port ...
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Dovecot imap-login: confusing error? message
I am busy setting up a mailserver with postfix, dovecot and mariadb on a Debian 9 system.
Receiving mail fails on port 993 as result of a time-out with this message in/var/log/dovecot.log:
imap-...
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Outlook and Thunderbird connecting to IMAP server where mail has been deleted
Have a rebuilt IMAP mail server which is missing emails for a time period. I have tried to search but only found articles about migration. Question is, will outlook and thunderbird etc sync such ...
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Why isn't disk space reduced after deleting mails through IMAP with Dovecot?
I'm running an email server with OpenSMTPD and Dovecot on Linux and accessing emails using IMAP with a Thunderbird client. When I delete an email in Thunderbird, why doesn't disk space usage go down?
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Cyrus IMAP mailbox replication. Is it encrypted over the WAN?
Servers are both Debian 9. According to Debian package search they are version 2.5.10.
I need to find out if replication as described here Cyrus Documentation: Replication is encrypted over the WAN.
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IMAP to Office 365 migration error
I am migrating mailboxes from an on-premise IMAP server to Office 365. Most of the accounts are migrating fine, but I'm hitting the following error on a handful of accounts.
Error: ...
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Webmail via imap unix socket - good idea or not?
I'm slowly setting up an email system on a Centos 7 server. The particular software I'm using will consist of postfix, dovecot and roundcube, although my question isn't specific to them (I think).
I'...
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Dovecot imap send spam to junk
I am using
Ubuntu 18.04 64 bit
dovecot 2.2.33.2
spamassassin 3.4.1
amavisd
The goal is to run an e-mail server, which I achieved already. I can access the e-mails at the server using Thunderbird ...
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HAProxy - IMAP, SMTP, POP3 - Multiple Servers
Please accept my apologies if this is off topic or does not apply on a more broad scale (i've searched the internet and can't seem to find a solution anywhere). I'm not sure if this is even possible, ...
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Cyrus - Fix quota usage
I have a mail infrastructure running on Cyrus (2.5.10), Postfix (2.7.1) and Perdition (1.19).
Recently many users have been complaining about their quota usage being displayed wrongly.
When trying ...
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Can't login to IMAP/POP3 server external
I have installed Postfix, Dovecot and MySQL via this tutorial (https://www.linode.com/docs/email/postfix/troubleshooting-problems-with-postfix-dovecot-and-mysql/).
When I do the following command, I ...
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Dovecot SSL Failure (Postfix Working Fine)
We're trying to connect an e-mail client to our mail server. We have postfix and Dovecot configured and running on ubuntu.
We can see that Dovecot is listening on the correct port using:
$ sudo ...
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Are CNAME “imap…” and “smtp…” subdomains needed?
I'm running my Postfix email server. I have only 1 A dns record for it: mail.my_domain.com I'm able to connect to it, receive and send email through it using only this url. Namely, I don't have "smtp.....
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Login Fail for IMAP on Exchange Server 2016
I have deployed Exchange Server 2016. I am able to send email over 587 while I face Login failure over IMAP 993 and POP3 995.
Over Microsoft Tool https://testconnectivity.microsoft.com/ IMAP Test ...
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FreeBSD Postfix Dovecot Roundcube - unable to login from Roundcube
i'm recieving such error :
IMAP Error in /usr/local/www/apache24/data/roundcube/program/lib/Roundcube/rcube_imap.php (196): Login failed for test1@example.com from 1.2.3.4. AUTHENTICATE PLAIN: * OK ...
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Roundcube IMAP log — NO [AUTHENTICATIONFAILED] Authentication failed
system: Ubuntu 17.10
This is the error I am getting when trying to log in log-file
/var/lib/roundcube/logs/imap:
[17-Apr-2018 22:03:13 -0700]: <3aedeusd> [1116] S: * OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 ...
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Dovecot and deduplication based on the email message content, not the dovecot's Id
Problem
I have an IMAP-only server and I want it to automatically de-duplicate messages.
I am unable to make dovecot remove copies of "identical messages" based on their content.
PD: I only need to ...
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How to escape characters in IMAP mailbox names?
I'm connecting to an IMAP server that uses . as the mailbox hierarchy delimiter. The mailbox names follow the schema "Other Users.login.Drafts", where "login" is replaced with a Linux user name. In ...
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Thunderbird sub folders grayed out after migrating to new mail server (postfix,dovecot,docker)
I migrated my old mail server (postfix,dovecot,...) to a new one (same services but with docker).
In addition I changed the mail dir of the single account from .../domain.tld/name/Maildir to .../...
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IMAPCopy - Bad or invalid system flag \RECENT
I'm using IMAPCopy 1.04.
During the copy process I get the following errors for many messages:
Bad or invalid system flag \RECENT
(messages with this error are not copied at all)
What does it mean ...
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imap-login director is not restarted after each auth request
imap-login by default in dovecot mail server is restarted after every login request keeping security in mind to avoid leak of critical data. But in a director config, the imap-login director process ...
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DNS SRV records for IMAP are not seen or used
To the best of my knowledge, the below DNS records should work as a failover for my mail servers:
example.com A 192.0.2.1 3600
www.example.com A 192.0.2.1 3600
ftp.example.com A ...
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Getting error with dovecot when authenticating user (Home directory not set for user)
I am trying to set up a relatively basic postfix/dovecot IMAP/SMTP server with a MySQL backend. It appears that the authentication is successful, I just seem to be getting this error:
Initialization ...
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Is it possible to use a mail relay as a proxy from one port to another?
We have a server that needs to connect to an IMAP server outside of our network.
Unfortunately, the server we need to connect to requires a connection on port 993. The problem is our host blocks port ...
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Timeout when connecting to remote imap server
I have a google compute cloud VM (Ubuntu 17.10) and I am trying to setup a mail daemon. I have installed postfix and dovecot according to this article (all steps followed exactly, from a fresh install)...
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How to make dovecot and postfix use the same mail directory
I'm trying to configure postfix and dovecot to connect to the same LDAP, and I kind of succeeded. But now, I have some discrepencies.
The reproduction is as:
I connect to dovecot in IMAP with ...
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cyradm delete mailbox permission denied
I have a new ClearOs 7 system. It has Cyrus IMAP installed. In trying to copy the mailboxes from the old server, I seem to have screwed up one of them. It has a folder called Junk E-mail which is only ...
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Dovecot cant connect to imaps 993
I am trying to set up a mail server in digitalocean VPS.
The problem is that i cant telnet to 993 although firewall is inactive and dovecot is listening. Please tell me where i do wrong.
I followed ...
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Forward unencrypted imap traffic into TLS-enabled?
Specifically in this example, I'm looking toward the ProtonMail Bridge, which will soon be available for Linux.
For those unaware, this sets up a local imap server that decrypts your mail and allows ...
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IMAP how to login with AUTH=LOGIN in console with OpenSSL
I have seen some servers that returns
AUTH=LOGIN
when I request the CAPABILITY of the IMAP server e.g:
1 CAPABILITY
CAPABILITY IMAP4 IMAP4rev1 AUTH=LOGIN AUTH=PLAIN AUTH=XOAUTH2 SASL-IR ...
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How to copy mail data from Mac OS X Server 5.3.1 to New Server 5.3.1
We have a Mac OS X Server v5.3.1 that has been failing, but we have many good backups. As a matter of fact, the internal HDD had failed and we are currently running off of an image on a bootable ...
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How does Outlook cope with IMAP server change (MX)
What happens with an Outlook local inbox when there happens to be an IMAP server change (MX change) and the new IMAP server/mailbox is blank?
Will Outlook retain already downloaded messages in it's ...
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Local email delivery to (remote) IMAP server
I need to deliver incoming mail from my local MTA into a (remote) IMAP mailbox. Is there a tool which can do that?
I cannot deliver the mail via SMTP because the remote system's spam filters etc. are ...
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Exchange combined with another provider using imap
Given a mail infrastructure on a shared hosting environment using ~10 main email inboxes and ~30 email inboxes for other purposes, all via IMAP.
We now want to migrate to Microsoft Exchange (using ...
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Gmail & GoDaddy - How to AMEND email settings?
I have no idea where else to turn to ask this! Stack Overflow admins sent me your way.
I recently transfered a domain away from one host over to GoDaddy.com, and the person i did this for uses gmail ...
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Mailbox on-the-fly decryption (dovecot)
To avoid casual mailbox snooping for an IMAP server I am thinking of "transparent encryption" setup that would:
Public key encrypt incoming messages at local delivery time
Private key decrypt said ...
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How do the servers mark the email as read
I'm looking to know how servers mark emails as read and unread with IMAP or POP.
I've logged into my server (using cPanel) and navigated to my mail directory and downloaded the same email file, ...
